Big Spending Puts Baseball’s Best In The AL

NEW YORK (CBS SPORTS) – The two highest-profile free agents — Albert Pujols and Prince Fielder — both left the National League this winter to sign with American League teams. The highest-profile international free agent — Japanese pitcher Yu Darvish — is headed for the American League. If you count both the salary and posting fee that the Rangers paid for Darvish, and if you count CC Sabathia’s new contract with the Yankees, four AL teams spent at least $110 million to acquire or keep a single player this winter. Not one National League team did.